Windows 10: Keyboard shortcuts for international characters not working on Win 11

In older versions of Windows it was possible to type keyboard shortcuts to enter an international character french from an english keyboard. This was done by defining your keyboard layout as US-International, To enter the french letter ê, the sequence was CTL+^, e. I tried this under Windows 11 and it does not work anymore. The only alternative I found was to use the Unicode or Ansi code method which is not user friendly and force you to have a list of codes near you. With the shortcuts method all you need is already visible on the keyboard.Can someone confirm that this feature is no lo

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ALT0140 does not produce the french character: linked o-e, in US-international keyboard

Hi Mosken, thanks much for your answer. I am following a course of french language using the app Duolingo. I am Brazilian, and the program presents exercises that alternate french and Portuguese sentences. So, I need my keyboard to keep the US-international standard all the time. French accents can be made with the keyboard; however, the regular keys don't produce unique french characters like the attached o and e. I followed your suggestion and added French to the list of idioms. I went then to the touch keyboard in settings and was able to include a french keyboard to the set of keyboards available. However, even with the French keyboard set instead of the US-international, the combinations Alt0140 and Alt0156 don't create the character desired. They print instead one character for each digit keyed. I checked in internet, even in french, the means to have the oe. All the sites specify the same Alt combinations to obtain the character. However, they don't work.

I use Windows 11 Pro - Brazilian edition - on a Dell 3590 notebook. I will appreciate any clue leading to a solution, although I suspect there is no way to do it without a native french keyboard.

Thanks again. I will resign to it.

 

US International Keyboard for Windows 10

Hello,

There is a way to enable the US International Keyboard. You have to go to Settings > Time and Language > Region and Language. Under Languages, if you click English, there should be a button that says "options." If you click on that, it should show you a
list of keyboards in English. If you click "Add a keyboard," a menu should appear with a list of keyboards. "United States - International" should be one of them.

The keyboard works differently from before. If you are using the US International Keyboard for Windows 10, to get é, all you have to do is press ' + e, one after the other, and the character should appear. There is a list of how to get characters on this
keyboard: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...ates-international-keyboard-layout-in-windows,
under "Creating International Characters." I know it says that Windows 10 is not listed as one of the softwares that run this keyboard, but it works on mine, and I have Windows 10.

Hope this helps!

 

Keyboard shortcuts in Windows 11

Why does windows 11 assign keyboard shortcuts to itself that are already being used by other apps? WITHOUT the possibility to change these keyboard shortcuts...

Why can't the users change these keyboard shortcuts in Windows 11?

I have an app that uses the Win+Ctrl+L keyboard shortcut.

Upgraded from Windows 10 to 11 and my shortcut doesn't work anymore. Plus I can't disable or change the Windows shortcut anywhere.

If I use the Win+Ctrl+L shortcut, the subtitles thing/stuff comes up. But I DON'T want that to pop up!

I would like to be able to stop Windows from using the shortcut.

How can I achieve that?